Oh man, oh man guys — The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is only a couple weeks away, so let’s throw some extra coal on the fire and get this hype train moving.

After the jump we have a ton of new pics (featuring a variety of characters and icky monsters we haven’t seen much of up to this point) and a quick clip of Gandalf bestowing upon Bilbo his famous, glows-when-orcs-are-near, elven blade Sting…

Sooo, Gandalf gives Bilbo a sword, Bilbo admits he’s never even held a sword and Gandalf’s advice is “well uh, hopefully you won’t have to use it”. Gandalf, you’re the worst at this weird “playing surrogate grandpa to Hobbits” thing you like to do.